Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Scheduling for Mixed-Criticality Systems
Journal article, 2014

The design and analysis of real-time scheduling algorithms for safety-critical systems is a challenging problem due to the temporal dependencies among different design constraints. This paper considers scheduling sporadic tasks with three interrelated design constraints: (i) meeting the hard deadlines of application tasks, (ii) providing fault tolerance by executing backups, and (iii) respecting the criticality of each task to facilitate system's certification. First, a new approach to model mixed-criticality systems from the perspective of fault tolerance is proposed. Second, a uniprocessor fixed-priority scheduling algorithm, called fault-tolerant mixed-criticality (FTMC) scheduling, is designed for the proposed model. The FTMC algorithm executes backups to recover from task errors caused by hardware or software faults. Third, a sufficient schedulability test is derived, when satisfied for a (mixed-criticality) task set, guarantees that all deadlines are met even if backups are executed to recover from errors. Finally, evaluations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed test.

Run-time support

Mixed-criticality systems

Fault-tolerance

Fixed-priority scheduling

Real-time scheduling

Author

Risat Pathan

University of Gothenburg

Real-Time Systems

0922-6443 (ISSN) 1573-1383 (eISSN)

Vol. 50 4 509-547

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Embedded Systems

Computer Science

Computer Systems

DOI

10.1007/s11241-014-9202-z

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